Sunday, July 31, 2011

Set Blogger Blog Title After Post Title

By default, Blogger automatically posts your blog's title before your post title.
Sometimes it's not that big of an issue.

Other times, it means someone won't visit your blog.

I noticed it on my own posts, once they appeared in Google's search results. It looks awkward and cuts off the portion of your title that you really want people to see.

It's definitely something you'll want to change.

For example, you have a blog title of "Super Happy Fun Time". You write a post about "How to Get and Keep Kids Entertained at a Social Event". Since Google will display your post title after your header, you risk your Blogger post showing up as something like "Super Happy Fun Time: How to Get and Keep Kids..." which sounds like quite the different subject.

You can correct this by editing your Blogger template. I have to give the same warning as anyone else providing instructions on editing it -save your template first.

Moving along, here are the steps to revise the appearance of the post title for your search results:

If you'd prefer, you can change the "-" to a "|" or whatever else you might want.

Click "Save Template".

If you run into problems, make sure the apostrophes are not curly braces. In scripts and code, you cannot use curly braces (curled apostrophes or quotation marks). If you run into this with any script or code, copy it into Notepad and replace any curly braces then paste back into your template.